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The Enigma of Einstein’s Brain: Science, Theft, and Ethical Controversy

Unveiling the mystery of Albert Einstein’s stolen brain, its extraordinary features, and the ethical dilemmas that continue to intrigue the world.

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5 min readJul 9, 2024

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Date: April 18, 1955.

In New Jersey’s Princeton Medical Center, the man who changed the course of science — Albert Einstein passed on at 76 of complications of a severe aortic aneurysm that led to heart and circulatory failure.

Albert Einstein, a German-Jewish American nuclear and theoretical physicist widely known for his works in the construction of the atomic bomb and 1921 Nobel Prize winner in the field of physics, has ever written numerous works before he left the world behind.

But what followed after Einstein’s death may be one of the biggest mysteries of the science history.

Einstein died and his admirers and scholars desired to study his brain and thus his skull was stolen in a dramatic fashion that could be seen in merely a movie.

It would be worthwhile to find out how this astonishing event evolved into what it is today.

Autopsy and the Stolen Brain

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